Strengthen the Security Posture of your PowerEdge Servers
Tue, 25 Oct 2022 19:27:27 -0000
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We've heard it said “Give a hacker a 0-day vulnerability, and they will have access for a day; teach a hacker to phish, and they will have access for life.” That made us smile. However, at Dell Technologies we take security very seriously with the mindset that security should be built in, not an add on. In our roles at Dell, we focus on the server management portfolio and we have created a number of tools to help organizations strengthen the security posture of PowerEdge servers.
Starting with CloudIQ, our cloud-based AI OPS infrastructure analytics offering, we incorporate a cybersecurity engine that includes a selection of click to enable security policies for PowerEdge servers, based on Dell best practices. We recently published two DfD (direct from development) papers:
- Harden Your Server Cybersecurity With Dell CloudIQ DfD highlights the details of the security policy engine now included in CloudIQ.
- Dell CloudIQ Cybersecurity For PowerEdge: The Benefits Of Automation DfD highlights the time saved using CloudIQ cyber security to police PowerEdge configurations. The results demonstrated that customers can easily create a 15 test policy and apply it to 1000 servers in under three minutes*, as compared to over 98 hours to perform these tasks manually.
*Projected outcomes based on Dell internal analysis of results of one and ten servers, customer results may vary.
Then looking on premise — OpenManage Enterprise (OME), Dell’s server management solution, scales up to 8000 nodes. OME provides full and rich server configuration drift detection and remediation management of the server configuration profiles accessed from each individual server’s iDRAC. For an overview of that feature, and details about firmware versions and the firmware configuration process, see Improve Operational Efficiency Through OME Server Drift Management.
References
- Dell CloudIQ Cybersecurity For PowerEdge: The Benefits Of Automation (DfD)
- Harden Your Server Cybersecurity With Dell CloudIQ (DfD)
- OpenManage Enterprise: Security Built In (Blog)
Authors: Kim Kinahan and Mark Maclean, PowerEdge Technical Marketing Engineering